At 08:46 PM 11/28/2005, you wrote:
Anyone have some favorite velvet tricks they'd like to share? It's
been ages since I worked with the stuff.
I'm particularly concerned about dealing with areas where multiple
layers meet. I'm doing an early Stuart informal doublet with set in
sleeves and epaulettes. That's a lot of layers. In wool, I'd just
grade down the interfacing then steam it to a fair-thee-well and whack
the whole think with a clapper. If I do that on velvet I'll have a
nasty squished mess.
Got any hints?
--cin
Cynthia Barnes
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Hmmm... use a walking foot; baste with silk thread first, not just pins;
grade with pinking shears and not too close to the seam line, or the turned
edge will fray over time. Use a velvet board or fluffy dry towel or another
piece of velvet to press with. There isn't much I've been able to do with
multiple layers, other than to grade carefully and try to place as few
seams in overlapping places as I can.
May I ask why both a set in sleeve and the epaulettes?
Kimiko
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